GO FORTH

Drawing inspiration from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, a text originally intended to provide the deceased with a blueprint to the afterlife, we use analog projection, sound, and dance to animate a series of burial vignettes. We excavate this 3000-year-old series of spells and incantations to create a new translation, focusing our inquiry on the scroll’s central metaphor: the weighing of the heart. The performance proposes burial not as erasure but as offering restitution, performing rites, and creating space in our lives for the presence of the absent, the imagined and the longed for. 

— Kaneza Schaal

throbs with the anguished effort of letting go — both for those who die and those who stay behind

GO FORTH is commissioned by Performance Space 122 with support from the Jerome Foundation. GO FORTH was supported by a Nathan Cummings Foundation grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant and was developed through a Baryshnikov Arts Center residency with support from the Princess Grace Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process Space Residency, PS 122 RAMP residency, and Bogliasco Fellowship. GO FORTH's tour to Rwanda was supported in part by a TCG Global Connections Grant.